Earl Kan Gong's Manor.
"Did you hear? A dangerous monster has appeared in the Miral Labyrinth. Several adventurer parties barely made it out alive. I also heard that the monster looks exactly like a human."
"Yeah, I heard about that too. That monster even uses a sword to slash people, and it eats other monsters. It's so terrifying... I hope the Lord has a way to deal with this monster."
"Ah, Your Highness the Princess."
The servants' conversation was overheard by Princess Elena as she passed by. Speaking of the Miral Labyrinth, that seemed to be the place where Torres was undergoing his special training.
Torres hadn't returned for a month, and she didn't know how his special training was going.
Recently, the Earl was discussing the attack on the royal capital with lords from other territories. Since Elena didn't have much to do normally, she could only stay quietly in the manor.
As usual, Elena walked towards the garden pavilion of the manor to pass the time for the day.
However, at this moment, her beautiful emerald eyes seemed to have spotted something. Upon seeing the approaching person, she immediately said,
"Good morning, Lord Xi Xi."
"Oh, morning, Elena." Ye Chuan happened to be passing by with Elara. Seeing Elena, he raised his hand to greet her.
"Good morning, Your Highness," Elara bowed obediently.
Elena gave a faint smile. However, seeming to remember Torres, she asked Ye Chuan, "By the way, Lord Xi Xi, may I ask you something?"
"Oh, go ahead," Ye Chuan grunted in acknowledgment.
"How is Torres progressing? I heard a very unusual monster has appeared over in Miral. Is he going to be alright?"
Hearing this, Ye Chuan paused for a few seconds before looking up.
"Who is Torres?"
Elena blinked. "Eh..."
"Hmm?"
"Eh?!!" Elena immediately exclaimed, "L-Lord Xi Xi, are you joking? Torres. My guard, Torres. The son of the Reinhardt family's head knight, Torres."
"Just kidding." Ye Chuan waved his hand. "Of course I remember. That big, goofy holy knight."
"Phew..." Elena breathed a sigh of relief.
She had thought Ye Chuan had actually forgotten about Torres.
Ye Chuan's next words made her freeze again. "Oh right, what has he been up to lately? I haven't seen the guy."
Elena: "..."
"Um, didn't Torres go on a special training with you? In the Miral Labyrinth."
Ye Chuan asked, "Oh? It's been over a month, shouldn't he have been back ages ago? It was only supposed to take three to five days. He has to eat, right?"
Elena: "Eh?"
"Hmm?"
"Eh?!"
"Oh?"
"Ehhh—" Elena said, "Torres hasn't come back for over a month!"
Ye Chuan: "..."
Is that so?
Hmm?
Well, how about that.
"Torres isn't in any danger, is he?!" Elena asked.
"His level isn't low, so what could possibly happen to him?" Ye Chuan said. "Besides, the location of his training was on the first and second floors. The monsters there are much lower level than he is."
"I see." Elena thought about it and seemed somewhat reassured.
"It doesn't matter. Worst case scenario, he dies and perfectly embodies the path of chivalry," Ye Chuan said.
Elena tugged at Ye Chuan's clothes and said, "Lord Xi Xi, please stop joking around. This isn't funny!"
"That's right, Teacher. Sir Torres will be fine, right?" Elara also asked.
"Alright, I'll just go over and take a look. There's no need to be so tense," Ye Chuan said.
Elena took a step back and nodded gently.
"Thank you for your trouble, Lord Xi Xi."
"Okay, perfect timing." Ye Chuan looked at the blue-haired girl beside him. "Elara, it's a good opportunity for you to go to the Miral Labyrinth as well and find some monsters to train with."
"T-Training is fine, but Teacher, you wouldn't just abandon me down there for a month too, would you?"
"Of course not."
"That's good."
Ye Chuan simply picked Elara up by the collar, then with a light tap of his foot, he soared straight into the air. "Liftoff~"
"Eh, eh?! Teacher, wait a minute, I'm scared—"
Seeing the disappearing silhouettes of Ye Chuan and Elara, Princess Elena couldn't help but start praying.
...
...
Miral Labyrinth. Ye Chuan had returned here with Elara.
"T-Teacher, I'm dizzy, woo~"
"It's normal to feel dizzy. You'll get used to it after a few more times." Ye Chuan put Elara down. He glanced into the interior of the labyrinth, then directly released his divine sense to envelop it.
However, the labyrinth seemed to have some kind of restriction. Ye Chuan's divine sense only swept through the first three floors. He did find Torres's aura, but he didn't find any trace of Torres himself.
"Let's go, we're heading in."
"O-Oh, okay." Elara was still very confident in Ye Chuan's strength, having witnessed just how powerful his magic truly was.
But after coming inside, Elara no longer thought that way.
Throughout the interior passages of the labyrinth, there were blackened, foul-smelling bloodstains and monster corpses everywhere. The level of brutality far exceeded Elara's imagination.
"S-So intense..."
"Let's go. There are no more monsters on the first floor." Ye Chuan continued walking deeper inside.
"Teacher, wait for me."
Moving on to the second floor, the stench of blood here was even heavier. A sheltered young lady like Elara, who had grown up in a manor, couldn't stand the smell at all.
"Teacher..."
"If you can't bear it, try using magic to alleviate your condition," Ye Chuan said.
"Yes..."
Elara's water magic included a purification spell, so she raised her staff and began to chant, "High-Speed Incantation, Gutana, Water Purification!"
A ring of water gathered around Elara's body. Accompanied by a rainbow glow, Elara instantly felt much better.
"Teacher, I'm good now!"
"Hmm, not bad." Ye Chuan nodded slightly upon seeing Elara start off with High-Speed Incantation.
This was a task required by Ye Chuan. No matter what magic Elara cast, she had to cast High-Speed Incantation first. Even though this consumed a lot of mana and mental energy, Ye Chuan felt it was extremely beneficial for her.
Casting your skills faster than others gives you many preemptive advantages.
Although he was getting paid to teach magic, Ye Chuan didn't want his student to be completely useless.
Because he needed to find Torres's location, Ye Chuan didn't waste time with Elara and kept heading downward.
By the time they reached the fourth floor, the monsters here were sufficiently dangerous, at the very least, they were not something Elara could handle. However, as for Ye Chuan...
Those monsters would explode with just a single glance from him.
"Oh? Found him." After arriving on the fourth floor, Ye Chuan's divine sense finally swept over Torres's aura.
After leading Elara in the direction of his divine sense, the two of them soon saw Torres.
He was wearing tattered armor, standing in place with lifeless eyes. The surrounding area was filled with minced meat and skeletal remains, emitting a terrifying aura.
"Sir Torres!" Elara called out, but then she realized something was wrong.
"Wait... this is..."
"Yeah, he's already dead." Ye Chuan had also noticed this.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
